Irish EPO sprint doper (Colvert) feels let down by system, now new Lab Times analysis casts doubt on WADA conclusion

maybe Trust Norwegians > Irish wrote:

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/athletics/i-felt-let-down-by-the-system-it-put-me-in-a-bad-place-a-very-bad-place-irish-sprinter-says-doping-system-is-a-farce-35126629.html

"It was heart-breaking," recalls Colvert. "I felt let down by the system. It put me in a bad place, a very bad place."

Ever since, he's been waging a quiet, determined war to restore his reputation. In September last year he contacted a group of Norwegian scientists who had been involved in a similar case two years earlier and asked them to review the evidence.

Earlier this week, they finally published their findings in the medical journal Lab Times and raised grave concerns about the anti-doping procedures which led to Colvert's positive test.

Here's Issue 5 (October 2016) of lab Times. Article pages 16-19.

http://labtimes.org/epaper/LT_16_05.pdf

Hi Colvert.

This doesn't say that there was no epo, just the alleged levels are unlikely.

I'm a big fan of having a better drugs test.

There was a similar case in Germany. Steeplechaser Benedikt Karus was banned for EPO and tried to challenge the test used by the WADA lab in cologne.

Here are the details in German

http://www.nada.de/fileadmin/NADAjus_Schiedssprueche/DIS_SV_SP_0715.pdf

His medical expert Dr. Dr. Perikles Simon said the SAR-PAGE test is highly unreliable and should be abolished. Only mass spectroscopy should be used to detect EPO.

Very interesting article which I can't really comment on in a meaningful way not having a scientific background of any kind. However, it appears to say that this guy was banned not on solid, indisputable evidence but on the interpretation of test results by a scientist. In other words a judgement call - in a case where it is suggested other scientists could have made a different judgement. This is slightly worrying, extremely worrying if you are the individual concerned!, but if WADA recognised the validity of what the article says it would have to wave goodbye to any testing for EPO, at least until other methods are utilised, and that is not going to happen!

Geez Lab Times and a bunch of Norwegian scientists!?! Scraping the bottom of the barrel there. The results are actually pretty rock solid, didn't get his timings right and got caught. His Doc knows WADA doesn't have the budget for mass spec. What a puff piece.

Norwegians know all about hiding doping, although now their process is apparently falling apart with Sundby and Johaug finally getting caught.

WAADS (Anti-Doping Scientists) says the system works.http://www.waads.org/news/epo-testing-doping-control-laboratories-no-joke

Not surprising. LRC failed to give this rebuttal frontpage news. Probably because they are big Prof Ross Tucker fanboys, and too sexist to admit a woman is right.

LRC never changes wrote:

Not surprising. LRC failed to give this rebuttal frontpage news. Probably because they are big Prof Ross Tucker fanboys, and too sexist to admit a woman is right.

Ross Tucker is fairly honest himself, that he is a jack of all trades but a master of none (except rugby performance), but he is still quoted on just about whatever "sports science" topic you can imagine.

LRC never changes wrote:

Christiane Ayotte, Ph.D.

President World Association of Anti-Doping Scientists

Professor, Director of the Laboratoire de contrôle du dopage

INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier

christiane.ayotte@iaf.inrs.ca

Dr. Ayotte wrote: This article is the second one presenting the views of a group of scientists who are not only challenging the interpretation of an athlete’s EPO test results, but discrediting “WADA’s credibility, again”.

Not surprising. LRC failed to give this rebuttal frontpage news. Probably because they are big Prof Ross Tucker fanboys, and too sexist to admit a woman is right.

More of the media control tactics, when combined with message board thread shutdowns try to ensure that we only hear one message.